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Weber, Andrea; Crocker, Matthew W. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2012
We present two eye-tracking experiments that investigate lexical frequency and semantic context constraints in spoken-word recognition in German. In both experiments, the pivotal words were pairs of nouns overlapping at onset but varying in lexical frequency. In Experiment 1, German listeners showed an expected frequency bias towards…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Semantics, Nouns
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Qiao, Xiaomei; Shen, Liyao; Forster, Kenneth – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
Contradictory results have been found in Chinese as to whether subject relative clauses are easier to process than object relative clauses. One major disagreement concerns the region where the difficulty arises. In this study, a "maze" task was used to localise processing difficulty by requiring participants to make a choice between two…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Mandarin Chinese
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De Smet, Hendrik – Language, 2012
Actualization is traditionally seen as the process following syntactic reanalysis whereby an item's new syntactic status manifests itself in new syntactic behavior. The process is gradual in that some new uses of the reanalyzed item appear earlier or more readily than others. This article accounts for the order in which new uses appear during…
Descriptors: Nouns, Syntax, Computational Linguistics, Indo European Languages
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Conwell, Erin; Morgan, James L. – Language Learning and Development, 2012
In many languages, significant numbers of words are used in more than one grammatical category; English, in particular, has many words that can be used as both nouns and verbs. Such "ambicategoricality" potentially poses problems for children trying to learn the grammatical properties of words and has been used to argue against the logical…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Usage, Language Processing, English
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Hwang, Sun Hee; Lardiere, Donna – Second Language Research, 2013
This study examined the second language (L2) acquisition of the Korean plural marker -"tul" by native speakers of English. Seventy-seven learners at four Korean proficiency levels along with 31 native Korean-speaking controls completed five tasks designed to probe for knowledge of particular features and restrictions associated with so-called…
Descriptors: Grammar, Nouns, Language Processing, Control Groups
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Sarré, Cédric, Ed.; Whyte, Shona, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This volume intends to address key issues related to research in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teaching and learning by bringing together current research at the intersection of the theoretical and practical dimensions of ESP. Readers will discover a treasury of information they will find useful to their own understanding of research into…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Needs Assessment
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Pandey, Anjali – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2011
This essay examines the theme and trope of "copies" in Kazuo Ishiguro's novel "Never Let Me Go." Whatever one's final reading of the novel, the theme and thread of copy, copies, copying and copied is never far off. In a semantic sense then, the act of "copying", both as a verb and the indexing of "copies" as…
Descriptors: Novels, Language Usage, Semantics, Verbs
Kraiss, Andrew M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study investigates the status of nominal functional categories in the Old High German (OHG) "Isidor" and "Tatian" translations and Otfrid's "Evangelienbuch" and the structure of the extended nominal group, including the Noun Phrase (NP) and the functional phrases Determiner Phrase (DP), Case Phrase (KP) and Number Phrase (NumP), which govern…
Descriptors: German, Nouns, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages)
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Ramscar, Michael; Dye, Melody – Cognitive Psychology, 2011
Do the production and interpretation of patterns of plural forms in noun-noun compounds reveal the workings of innate constraints that govern morphological processing? The results of previous studies on compounding have been taken to support a number of important theoretical claims: first, that there are fundamental differences in the way that…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphemes, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input
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Moyle, Maura Jones; Karasinski, Courtney; Weismer, Susan Ellis; Gorman, Brenda K. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to test Bedore and Leonard's (1998) proposal that a verb morpheme composite may hold promise as a clinical marker for specific language impairment (SLI) in English speakers and serve as an accurate basis for the classification of children with and without SLI beyond the preschool level. Method: The language…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Impairments, Children, English
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McDonough, Colleen; Song, Lulu; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Lannon, Robert – Developmental Science, 2011
Nouns are generally easier to learn than verbs (e.g. Bornstein, 2005; Bornstein et al., 2004; Gentner, 1982; Maguire, Hirsh-Pasek & Golinkoff, 2006). Yet, verbs appear in children's earliest vocabularies, creating a seeming paradox. This paper examines one hypothesis about the difference between noun and verb acquisition. Perhaps the advantage…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Language Acquisition, Children
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Arias-Trejo, Natalia; Abreu-Mendoza, Roberto A.; Aguado-Servín, Oscar A. – First Language, 2014
Infants across cultures need to identify the characteristics of their native languages in order to become competent speakers. The means by which Spanish-speaking children learn to produce number-gender linguistic markers has not been sufficiently investigated. Thirty-eight three-year-olds were tested in Berko-like production tasks, in which they…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Morphology (Languages), Native Language, Familiarity
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Baron, Andrew Scott; Dunham, Yarrow; Banaji, Mahzarin; Carey, Susan – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2014
Determining which dimensions of social classification are culturally significant is a developmental challenge. Some suggest this is accomplished by differentially privileging intrinsic visual cues over nonintrinsic cues (Atran, 1990; Gil-White, 2001), whereas others point to the role of noun labels as more general promoters of kind-based reasoning…
Descriptors: Cues, Classification, Nouns, Visual Stimuli
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So, Wing-Chee; Lim, Jia-Yi; Tan, Seok-Hui – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2014
This paper explores whether English-Mandarin bilingual children have mastered discourse skills and whether they show sensitivity to the discourse principle of information status of referents in their speech and gestures. We compare the speech and gestures produced by bilingual children to those produced by English- and Mandarin-speaking…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Nonverbal Communication, Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language)
Yu, Dominic – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This is a reconstruction of Proto-Ersuic, the ancestor language of Lizu, Tosu, and Ersu, three closely related languages spoken in southwestern Sichuan which are generally considered to be part of the Qiangic branch of Tibeto-Burman. To date, no in-depth historical work has been carried out on these languages. Approximately 800 lexical items are…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Phonetics, Syllables, Rhyme
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